Bottle. Pours a pitch black beer with a nicely sized, brownish head on top. Aroma of oak, brandy notes, white fruits, molasses and a hint of wood with caramel. Flavor is sweet and toasty, boozy with fruity notes and a biscuity touch. Roasty in the aftertaste with a big, boozy afterburner. Hints of dark chocolate overwhelm the overall palate, when warming up more underlying notes become more present. Nicely balanced, medium carbonation and long, roasty sweet aftertaste. Nice one.

330ml bottle. Brown to black, with beige head. Nice head retention. Lot of fruitiness, white fruits, berries and honey, with more roasted malts in the end. We need more barrel aged stuff in the UK. Again OK!

15cl draft at the 9th Bruges Beer Festival 2016 (7 II 2016). Black tanned porter with a reddish gloom. Slick looking, with a brown cassonade collar. The flavours are fairly subtle, which is a surprise really. The taste is a dryness, almost wood character. This mouthfeel is mild and subtle too, yet it is very nice. The alcohol and spirit-like sensation is big, and the ending resembles a gin. The maltness is weak, the bitterness is soft too. These features are overwhelmed by the calvados alcohol height.

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